Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Firefly's Blue Ghost mission is snapping stunning photos on its way to a lunar landing attempt. They show a new era of moon missions is beginning.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a non-threat.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. It's a win for alien life.

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you identify them.

Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin launched its New Glenn mega-rocket for the first time. The milestone is a leap for reusable rocketry.

The Trump and Musk alliance could speed up the next human moon landing and Starship's first mission to Mars.

The space business is in bloom and, so far, it’s largely unregulated.A commercial spacecraft touched down on the moon for the first time last month, in a NASA-sponsored mission by the Houston-based company Intuitive Machines.Then last week, SpaceX’s Starship mega-rocket finally launched into space and cruised above Earth without exploding.Both achievements were major leaps forward for NASA’s new moon program, which aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface using Starship. In fact, NASA’s bi…

NASA is recruiting four people to live in a Mars habitat simulation in Houston for 378 days.NASA is looking for crew members who best mimic sending real astronauts to Mars.NASA is hiring four people to spend 378 days living inside a simulated Mars habitat in Houston.The experiment is called the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA).We spoke with one of the CHAPEA leads, Suzanne Bell, to figure out just how hard it would be to get selected.NASA is looking for people who are as a…

Starlink and John Deere made a deal to outfit farming equipment with high-speed satellite internet.Elon Musk said the deal will be great for farmers who can’t yet use Deere’s digital technologies.Elon Musk and SpaceX set out to blanket the world with high-speed internet using thousands of Starlink satellites. Now, John Deere wants to get its rural clients into the network.The tractor titan and satellite giant have signed a deal to connect tractors and other farming equipment to the internet, The…

I asked ChatGPT to plan my 10-day trip to three cities in Switzerland on a $3,500 budget.I hoped the AI chatbot could save me some time that I usually spend researching before a trip.There’s been a lot of hype about artificial-intelligence chatbot ChatGPT and how it can make tasks easier — and I wondered if that usefulness could extend to planning trips.I went to Switzerland in October, traveling to three different cities on a budget and a time crunch. I hoped ChatGPT would help me skip some tim…

SpaceX's Starship rocket atop its Super Heavy booster is the most powerful rocket in history, capable of generating the same force as a volcanic eruption.

Burning fossil fuels is a huge health hazard. The air pollution alone causes 1 in 5 deaths annually.A rapid transition to green energy sources would prevent a lot of disability and early death, researchers say.The world’s energy choices between now and 2050 will determine so much about the future. Climate change, natural ecosystems, and economic development are all on the line. Add to that list 181 million years of healthy human life — annually.That’s how many years can be saved from death or di…

Two large hurricanes are sandwiching the US East Coast.Hurricane Idalia is about to wallop Florida, and Hurricane Franklin is making dangerous Atlantic surf.Astronauts on the International Space Station just flew over two huge hurricanes that are troubling the US East Coast.Hurricane Idalia is expected to strike first, with meteorologists predicting a Wednesday morning landfall. It’s on track to churn itself into a major Category 3 hurricane.When its life-threatening storm surge hits Florida, it…

Some of the most significant moments in SpaceX’s history include nearly going bankrupt in 2008 and bringing space travel back to the US.

NASA and Roscosmos still need each other, for now. But they’ve been preparing to part ways for years, as they aim for new space stations and the moon.

NASA’s new Webb telescope is powerful enough to capture galaxies 13 billion light-years away, and sensitive enough to spot Jupiter’s thin rings.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope wowed astronomers with its sharp, colorful first images.The Hubble Space Telescope imaged the same sights, but JWST reveals details that were previously invisible.NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) floored astronomers and spectators across the globe with its first full-color images on Tuesday.Even the scientists who worked on the project were taken aback by the images, telling reporters in a Tuesday briefing that they sobbed, fell speechless, or dropped th…

A recent report, from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, drew a road map to give the planet one last chance at 1.5 degrees.

Many killings were linked to logging, mining, and agriculture. Indigenous people were heavily targeted.

Wild animals can beat immense odds - crossing torrential rivers or bouncing back from the brink of extinction. Photos reveal the mundane and the extraordinary.